Search Results: Authors starting with P from Palimpsest Scholarly Books

Edited and with a preface by D. R. Bensen, foreword by Howard Phipps. Volume, measuring approximtely 5.75" x 8.5", is bound in quarter white cloth and burnt orange paper-covered boards, with stamped black lettering to spine. Book is in fine condition. Binding is firm. Lightly age-toned pages are clean and without markings. New York Times clippings relating to Wodehouse are laid in. Price-clipped dust jacket shows light shelfwear. xiii/329 pages
"Fans already familiar with Wodehouse the Connoisseur of Country Houses or Wodehouse the Golfing Enthusiast have a real and unexpected treat in store for them in this remarkable anthology, which highlights a previously overlooked Wodehouse—the Keen Animal Observer, a Wodehouse worthy of a special place of honor. Since the collection contains some of his very best stories, it will also serve as a delightful introduction to his complete oeuvre as well as to his natural history."

Facsimile edition. Large-format volume, measuring approximately 8" x 11", is bound in red leatherette, with stamped gilt lettering to spine and front cover. Book is in fine condition, with solid binding, clean and bright interior. Illustrated with a frontispiece portrait of the author and b&w photos. 135 pages.This facsimile of the 1914 edition offers an anthology of Romani literature, offering stories, sayings, curses and refrains, as well as a bilingual dictionary.

Colección Narrativa. Second edition. Softcover volume, measuring approximately 5.25" x 7.75", shows very light shelfwear. Binding is sound. Small price sticker appears in lower inside corner of rear cover. Book is otherwise in very good condition. 168 pages.Mexican author and journalist Cristina Pacheco (b. 1941) collects the observations, conversations, news items, images, overhead exchanges as reflections of life in Mexico City.

Volume, measuring approximately 6" x 8.75", is bound in blue cloth, with stamped silver lettering to front/rear covers and spine. Book is new, still in shrinkwrap. xiii/233 pages.
"A reassessment of the study of France, Spain, Italy and Germany in the Middle Ages in the context of today's rapidly changing world. Central to the debate are editorial concerns for the treatment and analysis of medieval texts. The primary focus is the study of the Middle Ages in France."

Colección Literatura o muerte. Softcover volume, with flaps, measures approximately 5.75" x 8.5", shows very light shelfwear, with sound binding, clean and bright pages. 181 pages."Padura Fuentes — one of Cuba's best-known and most widely acclaimed writers — has written a first-rate detective story set against the backdrop of Hemingway's Cuba. Part fascinating examination of Hemingway the man in his trying final years and part nifty postmodern procedural, Adios Hemingway will engross Hemingway fans while keeping them in suspense until the final pages.When the skeletal remains of a man brought down by two buckshots forty years earlier surface on the Havana estate of Ernest Hemingway, writer, drinker, and ex-cop Mario Conte reluctantly accepts a reinstatement to investigate. As the truth of the night of October 3, 1958, slowly reveals itself, Conte must come to terms with his idealistic memory of Papa Hemingway on Cuba's sun-drenched docks from when he was a child tagging along with his… Read More

Third edition. Folio volume, measuring approximately 12" x 17", is new. 84 unnumbered pages."Favorite book of Panamarenko himself. Completely edited and designed by the artist, with a text by Jon Thompson.""For more than 30 years, the Belgian visionary Panamarenko; engineer, poet, artist, physicist, inventor--has been conducting meticulous studies of the natural world and various scientific principles. He analyzes the secrets of the universe, gravity, and other energetic mysteries, and formulates both logical and well-considered solutions. His work is poetic, the result of a seamless coalescence of artistic skill and scientific research; the outcome of which can take the form of a flying saucer, backpack helicopter, flying carpet, zeppelin, solar powered car, submarine, or prehistoric mechanical bird. Each of his spectacular constructions possesses not only a peculiar beauty and naive playfulness, but also a degree of conspicuous consideration. In 2001, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Ghent held a… Read More

Separata de Taller de Letras. Author-signed first edition. Volume, measuring approximately 6.5" x 9.5", is bound in printed red wrappers. Book is well preserved. Binding is sound. Pages are clean and without markings. The author's visiting card is held in place on page following title page by paper clip. 69 pages.Inscription to Cornell Hispanist Ciriaco Morón Arroyo on the title page reads "Al profesor Arroyo, con / la amistad de su colega / y compatriota. / Martín Panero / Stgo, 15 de enero de 1975."Martin Panero Mancebo (1922-1999) was a Chilean scholar who was author of numerous publications.

Softcover volume, measuring approximately 5.5" x 8.75", displays verymild shelfwear. Binding is sound. Lightly age-toned pages areclean and without markings. 187 pages.Gisela Pankow (1914-1998) was a German-born Frenchpsychoanalyst.

Volume, measuring approximately 7.75" x 10.75", is bound in original printed wrappers. Binding is cracked at page 216. Pages are clean and without markings. xix/216 pages/77 plates.The book consists of two distinct parts, the first, devoted to the motif of the signum triciput (the three-headed form), the second to that of the Hercules prodicius (Hercules at the crossroads), two parts closely linked together by common assumptions and methodological objectives. Among these, the unbreakable link of text and image, figurative tradition and written tradition.

Volume, measuring approximately 5.5" x 8.25", is bound in brown cloth, with stamped black lettering to spine and front cover. Pictoral design stamped in brown and gold on front cover depicts chess pieces on boards. Book is in fine condition, with solid binding, and clean, unmarked pages. 367 pages.Russian-language study of chess openings and a "short history of chess culture" by Soviet chess player, author, and journalist Vasily Nikolayevich Panov (1906-1973), who was winner of the Moscow City Championship in 1929, played in five USSR Chess Championships from 1935 to 1948, and was awarded the International Master title by the International Chess Federation in 1950.

Booklet, measuring approximately 5.75" x 8.75", is staple bound in original printed and illustrated stiff wrappers. Binding is sound. This work displays very light shelfwear. 36 pages.
This is a rare self-published comic by the artist Gary Panter (b. 1950), one of the most important figures of the new-wave comics era of the 1970s. This 36 page B&W comic (32 pages plus cover) showcases the highly imaginative early work of the originator of "Jimbo" and the future city of "Dal-Tokyo". Only 500 copies produced.
Panter won three Emmys for set design for the popular TV series "Pee-wee's Playhouse" and has shown work in TIME, Rolling Stone and countless other publications and is the subject of a 700 page monograph by PictureBox.

Author-signed limited edition. Booklet, measuring approximately 5.5" x 8.75", is staple bound in original illustrated stiff wrappers. This volume is like new, with very minor blemish in upper outside corner of rear cover. 32 unnumbered pages.
This is a very rare self-published comic by the artist Gary Panter (b. 1950), one of the most important figures of the new-wave comics era of the 1970s. This 32 page comic (28 B&W pages plus COLOR Xerox cover) showcases the highly imaginative early work of the originator of "Jimbo" and the future city of "Dal-Tokyo". Number 31 of only 100 copies produced, it is signed and dated in pencil by the artist on pages 30 and 31 of the book. "I published a thing called Hup when I first got to LA, a self-published quick print comic about a Godzilla samurai guy on this big three-horn triceratops tractor"--Interview with Gary Panter, "United Mutations" website
Panter won three Emmys for set design for the popular TV series "Pee-wee's Playhouse" and has shown work in TIME,… Read More

Softcover volume, with flaps, measures approximately 6" x 9.75", shows very light shelfwear. Binding is sound. Pages are clean and bright.Biography of Uruguayan poet, short story writer, novelist, playwright, composer and journalist Mario Benedetti (1920-2009), member of the "Generación del 45," a group of writers who came to prominence between 1945 and 1950, and author of over eighty titles. 268 pages.

Preface by Bruno Toscano. Softcover volume is new. Contains b&w illustrations. 248 pages.

First printing. Edited and introduced by Jay Parini and with a preface by Gore Vidal. Volume, measuring approximately 6.25" x 9.5", is bound in quarter maroon cloth and cream paper-covered boards, with stamped gilt lettering to spine. Book and dust jacket are like new. Jacket is preserved in mylar cover. 711 pages.""The essential American form of expression."—from the Introduction by Jay Parini From Mary Rowlandson's story of her capture by Indians in the mid-seventeenth century to Mary Paik Lee's story of being a pioneer Korean woman in America at the beginning of the twentieth century, the autobiographical form has provided our most vivid, intimate glimpses of daily American life and self-understanding. In this groundbreaking anthology, respected writer and critic Jay Parini brings together an abundant selection from over three centuries of "the democratic voice . . . discovering itself." Here are the voices of the Founding Fathers and African American slaves; of transcendentalists and… Read More

Hardcover volume is like dust jacket, new, still in shrinkwrap. Numerous illustrations. 174 pages."Charming us with their whimsy and conjuring a warm domesticity, embroideries from the colonial era also astonish us with the high prices they bring at art auctions. A single work could take years to make, its materials could come from the other side of the world and its imagery could reflect its maker's deepest beliefs and her family's highest aspirations. Colonial women kept these accomplished works with them throughout their lives, proudly displayed them in their homes, and passed them down as family heirlooms. "Embroidery in Colonial Boston" tells the stories of six women and how needlework shaped their lives in the colonies' most important port city. From decidedly domestic origins, their embroideries soon became an economic force that promoted the silk trade and allowed entrepreneurial women and men to profit from selling supplies, drawing patterns and teaching young girls interested in this mode of… Read More

Softcover volume, measuring approximately 6.25" x 9", displays light shelfwear. Binding is firm. Pages are clean and bright. xii/339 pages."In "The Hypersexuality of Race," Celine Parreñas Shimizu urges a shift in thinking about sexualized depictions of Asian/American women in film, video, and theatrical productions. Shimizu advocates moving beyond denunciations of sexualized representations of Asian/American women as necessarily demeaning or negative. Arguing for a more nuanced approach to the mysterious mix of pleasure, pain, and power in performances of sexuality, she advances a theory of "productive perversity," a theory which allows Asian/American women—and by extension other women of color—to lay claim to their own sexuality and desires as actors, producers, critics, and spectators.Shimizu combines theoretical and textual analysis and interviews with artists involved in various productions. She complicates understandings of the controversial portrayals of Asian female sexuality in the… Read More

International Library of Anthropology. Volume, measuring approximately 5.75" x 9", is bound in black cloth, with stamped gilt lettering to spine. Book is in fine condition, with firm binding, clean and bright interior. Price-clipped dust jacket displays light shelfwear. Jacket is preserved in mylar cover. xv/353 pages.
"Based on research carried out amongst the Kangra hills in northwest India, this study will be welcomed as a major addition to our understanding of social inequality and the nature of caste and kinship. A full account is given of the social structure of the region, emphasizing the continuity of principles which govern relations between castes and relations within castes. In the course of his analysis, the author shows thatthe boundaries, which mark divisions within the caste, divisions between castes, between "clean" and "untouchable" castes and between men and gods are not of qualitatively different kinds, but are different only in the degree of elaboration and emphasis they receive.… Read More

Addison-Wesley Professional Computing Series. First printing. Hardcover volume, measuring approximately 7.75" x 9.75", exhibits moderate external wear, with small abrasion to upper fore edge of rear cover. Binding is firm. Interior is clean and bright. Numerous diagrams. xiv/396 pages."One of the main challenges in networking today is speeding up the rate of data transmissions, an issue of increasing importance as the dependence on computer communications like e-mail and file transfer continues to grow. Gigabit networking has the capability to move data up to 100 times faster than existing networks can handle. This technology opens up the possibility of new computer applications like distributed multimedia conferencing (voice, video and graphics). There has been considerable research done on this technology and the implementations are starting to emerge from many companies, such as AT&T. The telephone companies refer to their version of gigabit network as Broadband Networking, or B-ISDN. This work… Read More

Volume is preserved in shrinkwrapped slipcase (7.5" x 10.25"). Includes bibliographical references (pages 634-636) and indexes. 637 pages."Ever since Le Nôtre first laid out a promenade for Louis XIV and his courtiers, the Champs Elysées has been witness to the major turning points, upheavals and celebrations of French history. Forming a majestic backdrop to regime changes, invasions and coups d'état on the one hand, and to the most elegant and exuberant manifestations of a uniquely French art de vivre on the other, it now forms a stylish setting for the world's major luxury brands. The Champs Elysées, its origins and its development down the centuries, occupy a special place - sometimes grandiose, sometimes frivolous - at the heart of French history: a treasure store of national memories and a vibrant reflection of national identity, from the age of monarchy and absolutism to the Republic and globalization. The "Champs Elysées" offers a comprehensive guided tour to the most visited avenue… Read More